Jimmy Stewart Military Quotes & Sayings

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

So while you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And defacating on your microphone — Lauryn Hill

You cannot deny the struggle; the struggle denies you. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters]. — Avicenna

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. — Robert Updegraff

Why it is impossible to live in unclean house? — Adrian Mole

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so. — Jack Welch

I was honored and pleased that she was confiding in me in this fashion. I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone. I wanted to know what it was, what had caused her to create the pearl of which she had spoken. But I thought it would be presumptuous of me to ask; such things are revealed by a person when and to whom they choose. So I attempted to convey through my expression alone my desire to understand her and said nothing further. — Mohsin Hamid

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence. — Debasish Mridha

I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent.

Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise. — Margo Rabb